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As the afterglow of a three-game sweep over the Yankees fades, White Sox fans are forced to revert to reality. A season that began with promise is limping toward Sept. 29 on a 100-loss pace following the team's late-season collapse in 2012. A somnolent offense has had a residual effect on the pitching staff, the manager and the Cell's fireworks operator, who appears to be as lonely as the Maytag repairman. "I've always said I wanted to know what it's like to be a Cubs fan," said John Shea, a 52-year-old Sox fan from Albany Park sitting in the right-field bleachers on a gorgeous summer night Wednesday.

The Chicago Korean Festival is a lot like your great-grandmother's birthday. It has happened once a year for as long as you can remember. It is a clamorous, nostalgic moment when all branches of the family tree - young and old, immediate and extended - gather over a traditional feast to clink glasses to grandma's longevity, welcome new family members and set aside petty grievances. From its first occurrence in 1996 to this weekend's 18th, that close-knit feel has remained. The fest started as a neighborhood block party promoting local Korean businesses, organized by the Chicago Korean American Chamber of Commerce and Korean Americans for the Future.

Here's a super little restaurant, if you can call it that. How about a square blue box, slid Tetris-style behind an apartment, tucked in a leafy residential row where foot traffic consists of residents between the 4000 and 4100 block of North Albany Avenue? Maybe that's why Joaquin Soler and Dan Scesnewicz, the brains behind the Albany Park restaurant, named it Smalls Smoke Shack & More. It's small, and you want more. An outgrowth of the Brown Bag Lunch Truck, Smalls is essentially a takeout counter and kitchen with an iPad cash register, squeezed into 480 square feet.

I don't know Deb Mell. But I am a long-time resident of the 33 rd Ward and I do know Ald. Dick Mell, and It's time for a change in our ward. It's time for a change from the bullying tactics to get any opponent off the ballot so a Mell can run unopposed for another four years. It's time for fresh blood to run the alderman's office so new ideas can be fostered and moved forward. It's time for someone to represent the 33 rd Ward who listens to constituents, and when the overriding concerns go against the mayor's, their precious vote is cast that way. It's time for someone to represent the ward who doesn't describe themselves as a dinosaur.

A wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • Attacks across Chicago left a man dead and at least 14 others wounded, according to authorities. Read more • A 30-year-old man has been charged with assaulting a girl as she slept in her Albany Park home last week, police said Saturday night. Read more • A multi-car crash Saturday evening on Lake Shore Drive about 1800 south injured seven people and caused major traffic problems. Read more chicagobreaking@tribune.com Twitter: @ChicagoBreaking

Police are searching for a man they say tried to lure an 11-year-old girl to his vehicle in the Northwest Side's Albany Park neighborhood on Sunday. About 9 p.m. Sunday, the girl was walking her dog in the 3900 block of West Arglye Street when a man pulled a vehicle to the curb and rolled down his window, according to a community alert issued by police. "Hey, hey you, come here," the man said with slurred speech, according to the alert. The girl ran away to the 5000 block of North Springfield Avenue, where she saw the vehicle fleeing northbound.

Police have issued a community alert warning about a man who sexually assaulted a woman near a Blue Line station in the Mayfair neighborhood on the Northwest Side. The man, believed to be 20 to 25 years old, approached the 24-year-old woman from behind as she walked through a landscape path in the 4500 block of West Agatite Avenue around 9:55 p.m. Monday, police said. The path is near the entrance of the CTA Blue Line. The man grabbed her by the neck and pushed her face down to the ground in an area of flowers, and then tried to remove her clothes, according to police.

An Albany Park man pleaded guilty today to a weapons charge after being arrested last summer when he pulled a gun and pointed it at players and their families during a soccer game near Montrose Harbor, prosecutors said. Jaime Gutierrez, 20, pleaded guilty to aggravated unlawful use of a weapon before Cook County Criminal Court Judge Sharon Sullivan who sentenced him to one year in prison, said Lisa Gordon, a spokeswoman for the Cook County State's Attorney. Gutierrez, of the 3600 block of West Leland Avenue in the Albany Park neighborhood, was arrested July 29 and originally charged with unlawful use of a weapon and possession of a firearm with a defaced serial number, both felonies.

Chicago police have issued a community alert after a man broke into an Albany Park neighborhood home and attacked a girl sleeping in her home early this morning. The attack happened between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on the 4800 block of North Ridgeway Avenue, police said. The girl was sleeping in her bed when the man entered her bedroom through a window and sexually abused her,police said. Police described the victim as a juvenile. Anyone with information is asked to call Area North Detectives at (312)

A 26-year-old man was charged with domestic battery after he tried to choke his mother but was stabbed in the process in the Albany Park neighborhood, police said. Jose Miranda of the 4300 block of North Ridgeway Avenue was charged after police were called to their home at about noon today, police said. Police allege that Miranda was attempting to choke his 41-year-old mother who then grabbed a knife from the home and stabbed him in the hand, police said. The man required about two stitches, police said.